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Bezig met laden... The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Beltdoor David Giffels
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  rivercityreading | Aug 10, 2015 |    ) romanccm | Jun 25, 2014 | More than anything, "The Hard Way on Purpose" is about what it means to stay in a place others have deemed "a good place to be from." This collection of essays is part memoir and part treatise on the cultural identity of the Rust Belt. For those who grew up in this region where manufacturing once ruled, Giffels writes, we understand the world through constant hope and loss. In the end, when someone asks why anyone would stay here. The answer is because it's home. (  ) Bradley_Kramer | May 15, 2014 | The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt by David Giffels (Scribner, $15). English professor David Giffels has always lived in Akron, Ohio. These essays, which function both as memoir and as first-person reportage on the end of America’s industrial infrastructure, have an insider’s eye for detail, a rough and dry sense of humor, and relatively little nostalgia beneath the very real grief at losing a way of life. Whether it’s in lamenting the loss of blue-collar jobs or the losses suffered by the Browns and Cavaliers—and there are plenty of reasons to lament—Giffels demonstrates just how much energy this region has devoted to surviving when things don’t go as they’d hoped. He was part of the generation who came of age just as the best manufacturing and industrial years were ending, and The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt is a literary chronicle of that experience. (  ) KelMunger | May 8, 2014 |  ) kevinyezbick | Apr 29, 2014 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Award-winning author and journalist David Giffels explores the meaning of identity and place, hamburgers, hard work, and basketball in this collection of wry, irreverent essays reflecting on the many aspects of Midwestern culture and life from an insider's perspective.The Industrial Midwest built modern America, thrived for almost a century, then profoundly collapsed. But for cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Akron, a devoted tract of the population remains in the Rust Belt, committed to celebrating its singular Midwest culture and carrying it forward. David Giffels was born in Akron in the 1960s, as the golden age was ending, and has lived there ever since. Now he plumbs the touchstones and idiosyncrasies of a region where industry has fallen, bowling is a legitimate profession, extreme weather is the norm, thrift store culture dominates, and sports is heartbreak in a rarely told story of a unique American generation whose deep regional pride was born of economic failure and hardship. The Hard Way on Purpose is the story from the inside, written by someone who never left, about the life that goes on there and what it means. Intelligent, humorous, and warm, Giffels's collection of linked essays is about coming of age in the Midwest, and the stubborn, optimistic, proud, and resourceful people who thrive there"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)306.0977Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Biography And History North America Midwestern U.S.LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.83)
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As someone who relocated from Detroit to Virginia just two years after graduating from college, I can echo the truth in Giffels' statements. I watched moving vans pack up before I left and continue to see my high school classmates spread across the country through Facebook statuses and updates. If so many people are insistent on leaving, why would Giffels stay?
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